Lunar Eclipse 2021 Highlights: Super Blood Moon dazzles in reddish-orange - Hindustan Times Lunar Eclipse 2021 LIVE Updates: The first total lunar eclipse of 2021 took place on May 26. The Super Flower Blood Moon was due to take place between 2:17 pm as and 7:19 pm as per Indian Standard Timing (IST). More...

Russian cosmonauts publish video tour of new ISS module Nauka - TASS A video released on Twitter shows the cosmonauts opening hatches leading to the module and entering it More...

Two Spacecraft are Flying Past Venus, Just 33 Hours Apart - Universe Today When Longfellow wrote about “ships passing in the night” back in 1863, he probably wasn’t thinking about satellites passing near Venus.  He probably also wouldn’t have considered 575,000 km separation as “passing”, but on the scale of interplanetary explorati… More...

Space Station Did a 540-degree Spin, then Forward Flip. What Happened as Nauka Docked - News18 On July 29, the International Space Station performed a 540-degree uncontrolled spin when a module Nauka, newly docked to the space station, fired its thrusters because of an error in its software. More...

Japanese scientists develop freeze-dried mouse sperm postcards - Bangkok Post WASHINGTON - Good news: Scientists won't have to worry about their mouse sperm vials breaking in transit ever again. More...

Venus Is About To Get Two Visitors From Earth Soon - Wonderful Engineering Advertisement Two deep space probes are set to pass by Venus on 9th August. They would do so within 30 hours of each other. The Solar Orbiter will be followed by the BepiColombo Mercury orbiter on August 10. Venus is often referred to as the Earth’s twin. Not… More...

This quantum crystal could be a new dark matter sensor - Phys.org Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have linked together, or "entangled," the mechanical motion and electronic properties of a tiny blue crystal, giving it a quantum edge in measuring electric fields with record sensitivity… More...

Astronomers Find Dancing Cosmic 'Ghosts' Spawned by The Wild Weather of Black Holes - ScienceAlert Clouds of electrons blooming in deep space have been revealed in a whole new level of detail, showing cosmic phenomena unlike anything astronomers have seen before. More...

We used peanuts and a climbing wall to learn how squirrels judge their leaps so successfully – and how their skills could inspire more nimble robots - The Conversation US How do squirrels leap through trees without falling? It takes strength, flexibility and finely tuned cognitive skills. More...

NASA Scientists Want to Obtain "Fragments" From Deep Inside Moon - Futurism "The bottom line is that the evolution of the lunar mantle is more complicated than originally thought." More...

Boeing postpones Starliner flight to ISS twice in 24 hours after another glitch - ThePrint Boeing postponed its launch of the Starliner just 2.5 hours short of launch. The unscrewed capsule was to demonstrate docking with the ISS. More...

Happy birthday, Juno! NASA's Jupiter probe launched 10 years ago today - Space.com NASA's Jupiter-exploring space probe Juno celebrates 10 years in space today (Aug. 5). More...

The Focus of the Galaxy Forum's Next-Generation Space Telescope - Space Bollyinside - BollyInside Hear about this next-generation phenomenon at the 13th annual Ad Astra Kansas Galaxy Forum, set for 1 to 3 p.m., Aug. 21. The featured speaker will be Dr. More...

Using two different CRISPR enzymes to develop a faster and easier COVID-19 diagnostic test - News-Medical.net Frequent, rapid testing for COVID-19 is critical to controlling the spread of outbreaks, especially as new, more transmissible variants emerge. More...

Agriculture Is Killing Way More Bees Than We Realized, Huge Study Reveals - ScienceAlert Exposure to a cocktail of agrochemicals significantly increases bee mortality, according to research Wednesday that said regulators may be underestimating the dangers of pesticides in combination. More...

The satellite enables climate scientists to track sea level rise in San Francisco Bay and plan for the future of the coast - Space Bollyinside - BollyInside The environmental group has helped produce detailed modeling for defensive strategies, like restoring tidal marshes to absorb the tides from sea level More...

Space Scientists Reveal Secret Behind Jupiter's 'Energy Crisis' - The Ritz Herald Space scientists at the University of Leicester worked with colleagues from the Japanese Space Agency (JAXA), Boston University, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT) to reveal the me… More...

Astronomers Detected a Huge New Structure in The Milky Way, And Don't Know What It Is - ScienceAlert When you're swimming in a large body of water, calculating its volume or discerning the locations of distant floating objects isn't easy. The same is true for our galaxy. More...

Lord of the rings: Eight concentric rings detected around black hole - India Today The rings were observed using Nasa's Chandra X-ray Observatory and Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory around a black hole. More...

Study on UK's Stonehenge reveals mysticism surrounding monument's longevity - Republic World Stonehenge, a prehistoric monument on England's Salisbury Plain, may have survived this long because of standing stones' unique geochemical makeup. More...

Freeze-dried sperm delivered on a 'postcard' offers new hope for fertility treatment - Yahoo India News 'The sperm never expected the day would come when they would be in the mailbox'. More...

Did the Moon ever have a strong magnetic field? Here's what modern geophysics tells us - The Next Web Surrounding Earth is a powerful magnetic field created by swirling liquid iron in the planet’s core. Earth’s magnetic field may be nearly as old as the Earth itself – and stands ... More...

What Was Our Sun's Childhood Like? A Nearby Star Might Provide Some Clues - News18 In a bid to understand what our sun was like when life began to form on Earth, scientists keep looking for stars and planets in the vast universe that can offer some clue about our own origin. More...

NASA shares 'false-color mosaic' of Moon captured by Galileo Probe - Asianet News English The portrait features various colourful shades, as the caption of the space agency suggested. More...

Venom contributed to formation of new species of insects, fishes: Study - ANI News Swansea [UK], August 6 (ANI): A new study has revealed that venom contributed to the extraordinary diversity of insects and fishes, the most species-rich invertebrate and vertebrate groups in the animal kingdom. More...

Research aims to use two CRISPR enzymes to diagnose COVID in 20 minutes - ANI News California [US], August 6 (ANI): A research team led by scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, is aiming to develop a diagnostic test that is much faster and easier to deploy than the RT-PCR test which is today's gold standard for detecting COV… More...

NASA has glimpsed our galaxy's fate in three-way galactic brawl - Livescience.com Despite the apocalyptic appearances, galactic mergers are a frequent and essential part of a galaxy’s life cycle. More...

An inner solar system much like ours, 35 light-years away - EarthSky Astronomers using the Very Large Telescope have been studying a distant exoplanet with an inner solar system much like ours. More...

Mysterious dimming of bright star Betelgeuse may be from 'sunspots' and temperature changes - Space.com The mysterious strange dimming seen last year in the huge star Betelgeuse may be from giant sunspots and temperature fluctuations. More...

For first time, Kepler space telescope records initial phase of supernova explosion - WION Researchers for the first time have successfully observed a supernova in its initial phase while trawling through data from Nasa’s Kepler space telescope. More...

China's Mars rover travels over 800 meters on red planet - SHINE China's Mars rover Zhurong has traveled more than 800 meters on the surface of the red planet as of More...

Mystery at the centre of the Earth: Our planet's inner core is behaving oddly and scientists have no idea why - Times Now One of the only real ways we can study the behaviour of the planet's inner core is by observing seismic waves (underground tremors triggered by earthquakes) as they make their way across the core. More...

Black holes, Dancing Ghosts in the sky? Sensational discovery by scientists is whopping 1 billion light years away - HT Tech Scientists boldly went where no telescopes had gone before and got surprised by Dancing Ghosts in the sky courtesy a couple of supermassive black holes. More...

Nasa scientists spot unusual set of rings around black hole with companion star - Hindustan Times Nasa said that the X-ray images of the giant ring reveal information about the black hole, its companion star, and the intervening dust clouds. More...

Solving solar puzzle could help save Earth from planet-wide blackouts - India Education Diary Scientists at the University of Sydney and in the USA have solved a long-standing mystery about the Sun that could help astronomers predict space weather and help us prepare for potentially devastating geomagnetic storms if they were to hit Earth.The More...

How many moons does the planet have? - Space Bollyinside - BollyInside 2 Saturn is a gas giant similar in atmospheric composition to JupiterCredit: Getty – Contributor How many moons does Saturn have?  Saturn has 82 moons. More...

Caltech: "Seeing" Single Cells with Sound - India Education Diary Scientists working in the Caltech lab of Mikhail G. Shapiro, professor of chemical engineering and Heritage Medical Research Institute Investigator, have found a way.The new technique makes use of so-called acoustic reporter genes, of which Shapiro h More...

Caltech: Observatory in Chile Takes Highest-Resolution Measurements of Asteroid Surface Temperatures Ever Obtained from Earth - India Education Diary A close examination of the millimeter-wavelength emissions from the asteroid Psyche, which NASA intends to visit in 2026, has produced the first temperature map of the object, providing new insight into its surface properties. The findings, described More...

Zhejiang University: Germanium-lead perovskite LEDs: a new way to reduced toxicity - India Education Diary Metal-halide perovskites are a new class of semiconductor materials for LED display and solar-energy harvesting. However, the best-performing devices are often made from lead (Pb)-based perovskites, whose toxicity may cause potential environmental co More...

Incredible pictures of Aurora Australis captured by International Space Station goes viral - Republic World the International Space Station posted several amazing photos of the aurora, received million likes and tons of comments More...

University of Wisconsin: Daddy longlegs got their long legs by reusing some old evolutionary tools - India Education Diary The first genome of a daddy longlegs, sequenced by University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers, is giving up clues to the evolution of the gangly appendages that give members of the order Opiliones their common name.Daddy longlegs, also known as harv More...

Major U.K. science funder to require grantees to make papers immediately free to all - Science Magazine New policy brings UKRI-funded research in line with European open-access push More...

Climate Change: Signs Of Gulf Stream Collapse Can Disrupt Monsoons In India - India Times Climate scientists have spotted warning signs of the collapse of the Gulf Stream, also popularly known as our world’s crucial tipping point.  ReutersAlso Read: Arctic Ground Temperature Hit 48 Degrees Celsius, Breaking All RecordsReport… More...

Scientists Created an Artificial Neuron That Actually Retains Electronic Memories - Interesting Engineering A team of researchers is designing a prototype artificial neuron that rivals the brain's immense efficiency! But what does this mean for the future? More...

Advanced Space Passes Preparatory Test for Pathfinder Mission to the Moon - IT News Online Advanced Space Passes Preparatory Test for Pathfinder Mission to the Moon More...

NASA shares a 'false-colour mosaic' of the moon captured by Galileo probe - News Heads The US-based space agency National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has shared a picture of the Earth's natural satellite – the Moon, clicked by Galileo spacecraft. The picture looks like a piece of modern art, showcasing different colour shades of… More...

NASA`s Perseverance Mars rover fails to retrieve rock in search of extraterrestrial life - Zee News The National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) Mars rover Perseverance has failed in its first attempt to grab rock samples on Mars for future return to Earth. More...